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Source: Live Mint Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have commenced 2025 on a negative note in the Indian stock market, reversing their buying trend from December 2024. In the first fortnight of January, FPIs sold Indian equities worth over ₹48,000 crore, marking a sharp contrast to the ₹15,447 crore of net inflows recorded in December. The…
Source: Live Mint At the 17th Mint BFSI Summit & Awards, Narayan outlined the regulator’s response to the frenzy in futures and options, by implementing targeted measures to curb egregious overtrading, particularly around expiry days. These steps, introduced in October 2024, aimed to address specific risks without burdening the entire F&O market with overly broad…
Source: Live Mint Equities continued to dominate investors’ minds in 2024. This is despite an eventful year with high volatility due to multiple global events, including a new war, weaker-than-expected economic growth, disappointing earnings, and subsequent FPI outflows. Going forward, factors like corporate earnings slowdown, sticky inflation, geopolitical tensions, higher US bond yields, strong dollar…
Source: Live Mint In March the rupee was at 82.77 to the US dollar. Currently, it is around 85.25, which is a drop of about 3%. We will look at the reasons for this depreciation, but the important point is that our external situation – as measured by our current account deficit (CAD) and balance…
Source: Live Mint If market closes around these levels, it would also mark the fifth time in the last 10 years that the Sensex has posted negative returns in December. In contrast, last year, markets saw an impressive return of 7.8% during the holiday month. Despite the downturn, experts said this market dip presents an…
Source: Live Mint Desperation swept over global markets on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve indicated a slower easing of interest rates, sending Indian stocks lower for the fourth day in a row. Markets now await the onset of the annual Santa Claus rally, when stocks tend to rise during the Christmas-New Year holiday season….
Source: Live Mint India’s stock benchmarks staged the sharpest intra-day recovery in six months on Friday, supported by foreign investors snapping up large-cap stocks. With bulls in pole position, analysts expect the Nifty to trend up early next week to cross the 25000-mark, where it’s expected to face stiff resistance. The last time the Nifty…
Source: Live Mint Markets have recouped some of these losses in the recent trading sessions. So should investors stay put, increase their equity exposure, or cut their positions? At the Mint Money Festival 2024, held on 22 November in Mumbai, market veterans shared their outlook and addressed several questions from investors. Here are some key…
Source: Live Mint Expert View: Dr. Ravi Singh, SVP- Retail Research, Religare Broking believes the current market outlook appears unpromising for the next few months, with potential positive momentum likely only after January 15, 2025. He advised initiating fresh long positions only if the Nifty decisively breaches the 24,500 level, as this could indicate the…
Source: Live Mint Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) made a notable return to Indian equities, ending a 36-session selling streak with net purchases exceeding ₹10,000 crore over two days. After turning net buyers on Monday, November 25, FIIs continued their buying trend on November 26, shows data from NSDL. This shift in sentiment coincided with two…
